It
sounds like a redundancy to speak of union through synthesis, but
it is not so. It is union through identification with the whole—not
union through realisation or through vision. Mark well this distinction,
for it holds the secret of the next step for the personalities
of the race. ... the key or the secret of identification ... lies
in the custody of a few in this integrating group of mystics and
knowers and will be brought out into manifestation in the furnace
of their individual experience and thus given to the world. (1)
-
Alice A. Bailey

We
can wonder if this is the right time for the Yoga of Synthesis to enter
our planetary life. Is Humanity's
identification with the Whole a necessary prerequisite for the next
stage of our planetary evolution to occur? As we begin to enter the Aquarian
Age, which brings with it Universal Consciousness and the great Seventh
Ray relating Spirit and
Matter, we must be ready to cooperate with these new incoming energies.

Each
Yoga established on Earth comes at just the right time in accord with
the integrating Purpose and Plan of Shamballa, and when enough disciples
are present on Earth to be able to learn to use and share the new energy.

The
energy of Shamballa is
simplicity itself. As
we explore group use of this Shamballa force, we know it has to do
with Divine Purpose.
Shamballa knows that this planet and all that is on it is part of the
form manifestation of a great Cosmic Life. (3) Before
it can be the recipient of that LIFE,
the planetary substance ~ including humanity ~ must be redeemed and
purified to eventually become both recipient and distributor of that
energy throughout the solar system and beyond.

We
might surmise that the Earth's purpose is eventual Union with that
which lies above (first the Sun~Solar
Logos, then later the Cosmic
Logos), so that eventually the LIFE* of All that IS ~ or, the Living
Presence of Divinity ~ can pour through all three Logoi and synthesize
the Three in One and One in Three: Monad, Soul and Personality ~
or Spirit, Consciousness and Form. "As
above, so below." All are engaged in the same process.

*The term
LIFE is here used as H.
P. Blavatsky used it, as that which synthesises spirit, soul
and body: "It is in reality that fourth something which hovers
behind all manifestation and behind all objects, all qualified expressions
of divinity and which is hinted at in the Bhagavad
Gita in the words: 'Having pervaded this whole universe with
a fragment of Myself, I remain.'" (5) It
is the Living Presence of Divinity containing all within it ~ space,
self and substance.

So the question
for all of us who wish to cooperate with the evolutionary process might
be: Just what is it that this Life wants us to do? How are we in a
practical way to cooperate with this larger Purpose?

We know
that even an exalted Life, such as the One About Whom Naught May Be
Said or the Cosmic Logos, our solar system and planet are connected
with, is a center within this Fourth Something, so it matters not whether
we call it the Living Presence, or God, or LIFE, as long as we know
we are talking about the same thing.

Language
can act as a barrier to truth. For example, the term God might mean
different things to different people. For some it means a personal
God, for others it refers to our Planetary Logos, or the Solar Logos,
and for some the Cosmic Parabrahman,
and finally some of us might mean THAT which lies behind it All. But
our different terms act as no barrier as long as we all know we are
talking about the same thing, only calling it by different names. Adaption
of a universal language in the Aquarian Age, we are told, will greatly
help us all to do our part in creating a synthetic expression that
all of humanity will understand.

And pondering
our part in the Whole brings us a fascinating meditation to wonder
if not just our Planetary
Logos but also the Solar Logos and Cosmic Logos are waiting on us to
help prepare the form or personality nature of that Cosmic Logos.

We are told
that Sanat Kumara is the
sole repository of what might be called the personality of this great
Cosmic Life and further that the vehicle of manifestation of Sanat
Kumara includes Shamballa, Hierarchy and Humanity, we are therefore
part of the vehicle of manifestation of Sanat Kumara, the One who is
the sole repository of the personality (mind, emotions and form) of
this Cosmic Logos, and thus certainly part of at least the densest
aspect of the form of the Cosmic Logos.This
is why we are a vital component of the planetary life and how we can
be used to "develop a station of light serving not only the planet
and our solar system, but the seven systems of which ours is one." (4)

This Cosmic
Monad ~ the One
About Whom Naught May Be Said ~ is working through His Heart Centre
(or some part of His Heart Center) and our Sun, and through Sanat Kumara
the Lord of the World and His body of manifestation ~ which includes
us ~ to express part of His cosmic nature, all the way down into the
densest form.

Perhaps
this sheds greater light on the statement: "When it is realised that
our planetary purpose is mysteriously related to the revelation of
love upon our little planet, the Earth, through the process of creation,
the concept emerges that there is the probability that our planet has
a unique relation to the Heart of the Sun." (6)

Shamballa
is the holder of the Vision for the redemption of substance on Earth.
But indeed, Shamballa needs the planetary constitution to bring this
vision to fruition. Even though it takes ages for that vision to bear
fruit and is subject to much distortion as it filters downward, without
the filters stepping down the energy from on high into the lower worlds,
planetary life could not evolve.

The filters,
of course, are not just on our planet, but are all the Great Lives
that act as conduits in the Chain of Existences that stem all the way
throughout the One Life down into and through vast cosmic lives, our
solar system, Shamballa, Hierarchy, and Humanity, thence down into
each of the lower Kingdoms of Nature on Earth. The Whole of Creation
will eventually become imbued with Living Light.

To
Fulfill the Purpose of Shamballa Is the Intent of
All Ashrams

The intention
to fulfill the Purpose of Shamballa is the intent of all Ashrams,
and is implemented in some degree or other, consciously or unconsciously,
by groups of disciples connected
with those Ashrams ~ none of whom are on exactly the same step of the
path all at the same time. At the Third
Initiation we are told the initiate (although having touched into monadic
consciousness) "walks in the Glory of creative undertakings." (7) We
can remind ourselves that even Masters who
are in charge of Ashrams are involved in the great activity of the
lower three worlds. In other words, service in the three worlds continues
for a very long time.

So, although
pure monadic energy or consciousness ~ Spirit ~ works ever behind the
scenes, it also acts as a holder of the vision and stimulates the vision
in others. There may be those in any group who perform such a function,
at least in part. There are also almost certainly those who will appropriate
that vision and begin to implement it through their various projects
and thereby manifest it out into the world.

All are
needed, and all who are conscious of what they are doing and why they
are doing it are to some extent working with the Life aspect or Living
Presence of Divinity.

Whatever
our individual duties may be, in whatever field, it might be beneficial
to include and emphasize the Synthesis of Being. It would so
adjust the thinking on every level in present time that eventually
it would be built into the mental and astral substance as building
blocks of existence ~ well before the higher experiences of identification
take place.

When we
begin to realize that the Universe is a Living Being, and that each
form it has created, including ourselves, is a part of that Living
Being and has a purpose in being here, we also begin to realize that
each form is in process of recognizing and Becoming that which it essentially
IS.

Synthesis
of Being allows us to learn how to use the energy of Spirit to at-one
the pairs of opposites and helps bring this skill and at-one-ment more
fully into the world.

As the vision
of the REAL ~ of the essential unity underlying all creation ~ is held
before all who can recognize it, we can then share this truth among
humanity. This sharing of the REAL would include that which helps to
usher in the new civilization, helping to dissipate the Great Illusion
of manmade thoughts (8) and
to assist the mass consciousness of humanity toward greater recognition
of our cosmic connections ~ knowledge that the evolutionary process
is one of both form and consciousness, and an explanation of the different
stages along the way. This
might go a long way to assist in the understanding that the Kinship
of Humanity, in all its fascinating diversities, is already a fact,
based on our place and function within the larger cosmic, essential
unity.

Synthetic
thinking can exist on many levels, and is not to be confused with one's
Identification.
Depending on where an individual is focused, thought on behalf of the
Whole could have an effect on higher and lower mental and astral levels
as it becomes part of the evolutionary mind of the new civilization.
What is required is to build the Yoga of Synthesis into our ordinary
thoughts so that mass psychology is changed, as the reality of the
Whole and the part that each individual plays in it becomes built into
our culture.

We could
remind ourselves how long it has taken the bulk of humanity to realize
the reality of the global community, which effectively encourages cooperation
among nations. It has not yet fully manifested, though the thoughtform
of a global community exists. We can do the same by implanting the
idea of our Cosmic Connections in this, the emerging New Age. Those
who feel called to this task are actively practicing the Yoga of Synthesis
and thus help humanity to become identified with the Whole.

After all,
without an enlightened humanity, the Earth cannot fulfill our
Divine Destiny. We are a vital conduit in the vast hierarchy of
Being, and humanity itself is destined to become the World Saviour
on behalf of our little, yet so significant, planet.

Perhaps
this Yoga of Synthesis is what will bring about worldwide recognition
of the One Humanity in the conscious minds and hearts of all. If identifying
with the Whole brings a realisation of the essential unity or synthesis
underlying all creation and our part in that creation ~ and illustrates
how vitally humanity's cooperation is needed ~ this may help us understand
the reason we were created in God's image, in the first place!

The keynote
of the new yoga will be synthesis; its objective will be conscious
development of the intuitive faculty. This development will fall
into two categories: first, the development of the intuition and
of true spiritual perception, and secondly, the trained utilisation
of the mind as an interpreting agent.
-
Alice A. Bailey (1)